The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin
Subtitle: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. : Adorned with twenty-six pictures. : For the use of schools
By: By James Greenwood, Author of the English grammar, and late Sur-master of St. Paul's School
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20398
Publisher: Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers.
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: mul; eng; lat
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Latin language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Readers; Picture books for children
Notes: This first American edition of the popular textbook is one of the earliest American illustrated children's books. It has the same preface, with additions, and practically the same text as Greenwood's "London vocabulary" which the Dictionary of national biography states was an abridgement of "Orbis pictura" by Jan. Amos Komensky.

Signatures: A⁴ B-L⁶ M² (M2 verso blank).

Evans 20398

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 117